verb
- to remove the bowels or intestines from; to eviscerate
Usage: archaic or literary; transitive verb
Examples
- The hunter disbowels the deer after the kill.
- In the old text, the warrior was said to disbowel his enemy.
- The butcher disbowels the fish before selling it.
- Medieval accounts describe how soldiers would disbowel their foes in battle.
- The chef disbowels the chicken to prepare it for cooking.